104 WHITE AND GREENISH 



WHITE FRINGED ORCHIS: 



Habenaria blephari glottis. 

 Orchis Family. July — Aug. 



Found in bogs, swamps. Eastern Canada to 

 Michigan, south to Mississippi. 

 Flowers — Similar in habit to the Yellow Fringed 

 Orchis, white, fragrant, lip fringed, in 

 spike terminating stem 1—2 feet high. 

 Leaves — Lance-snaped, parallel veined, clasp- 

 ing stem. 



PRAIRIE WHITE FRINGED ORCHIS: 



H. leucophaea. 

 Is similar to the preceding, differing chiefly 

 in having larger white or greenish flowers, lip 

 divided into wedge-shaped segments, deeply 

 fringed. It is more common west, being 

 found in moist, open ground from Western 

 New York to Minnesota and Arkansas. 



WINTERGREEN; CHECKERBERRY: Par- 

 tridge-berry: Deer, Box, or Spice-berry: Moun- 

 tain or Ground Tea. Gaultheria procumbens. 

 Heath Family. July — Aug. 



Found in woodlands. Newfoundland to 

 Northern Georgia, west to Minnesota, Mich- 

 gan and Manitoba and far north. 

 Flowers — White, small, somewhat bell-shaped, 

 nodding, from the leaf angles. Ber- 

 ries red, edible. 

 Leaves — Dark green, evergreen, slightly toothed, 

 aromatic, clustered at the top of stem, 

 2-5 inches high. 



